Try to make your salads bright, combine ingredients of different colors - green, red, yellow, orange. This will not only give the dish a beautiful appearance, but will also affect the appetite, enhancing it.

The main rule: the decoration of the salad should be in harmony in taste with the main ingredients of the recipe. Ideally, the decoration should be composed from the same ingredients that make up the salad.

The exception is those decoration details that are easily removed from the salad and do not mix with it. For example, “mushrooms” from cucumber and tomato halves or “flowers” ​​from boiled carrots. Typically, such removable “decorations” are located in the center of the salad and stand out strongly above its surface.

In some photographs posted by housewives on the Internet, you can see that even meat salads have a central decoration made of strawberries or grape seeds. Of course, such decorations look bright and impressive, but their use is not always appropriate. Therefore, before you decorate the crab salad with your favorite combination of vegetables and fruits, you need to carefully check the ingredients of the decoration and replace those that can produce juice and spoil the taste of the salad.

The second rule in design: “curly” salads in the form of fish, snakes, crabs, etc. are obtained only from salads with finely chopped products and a sticky consistency.

How can you decorate salads?

Your imagination will tell you how you can decorate salads. Crab salad can be placed on a dish in the form of a fish with a striped color made from “scales” of a boiled egg or rice and contrasting yellow corn. This salad will appeal not only to adults, but also to children.

Meat salad, bean and ham salad can be turned into a cake. For this ingredients should be better arranged without stirring, and each top layer should be slightly smaller in coverage area than the previous one: this way the “cake” does not crumble and retains its shape. The finished salad is covered with dressing (usually mayonnaise) like a cake with icing. And the decoration can be a walnut, which is part of the salad itself. When serving, such a cake is cut into pieces and mixed in a plate.

Shrimp salad can be decorated in the shape of a flower and decorated with shrimp, placing each on a separate petal, and in the center of the flower place a “rose” of lemon.

How to decorate a winter salad so that none of the guests recognize the culinary masterpiece as a familiar dish? The first option is curly design. A winter salad would make a great snowman with a carrot nose and pea eyes.

The second option is cake, the surface of which will be completely covered with finely chopped herbs, decorated with peas and mayonnaise patterns. In such a cake there is no need to arrange the ingredients in layers; the main thing is to simply place it in the form of a high circle on a dish and properly “disguise”.

Vegetables

Cucumbers are the most excellent material for decorating salads, and both pickled, salted and fresh cucumbers are used. Cucumbers can be cut into slices, slices, cubes, circles, rings, fans - whatever you like.

Carrots are widely used to decorate salads because of their bright, long-lasting color. In this case, you can also take both fresh and boiled carrots. You can cut carrots into bars, circles, stars, tulips, and vases.

Tomato is also one of the frequently used vegetables in salad decoration. Tomatoes can be cut in half, remove the ovary from both halves, and then fill them with green peas, mushrooms, cheese and other foods suitable for salad.

Greenery

Salads are decorated with onion rings, cutting the onion into thin slices. You can make a cross-cut on the surface of a large onion to create a chrysanthemum flower. Almost all salads are decorated with dill, green onions, and parsley. Small green leaves can be placed whole.

Fruits

Lemons are usually used to decorate salads made from fish. Stripes are made on the lemon peel with a carved knife, and then the lemon is cut into thin slices and decorated with the salad. Pomegranate seeds add piquancy to any salad due to their size.

Meat products

Slices of sausage or ham are rolled into rolls. A cross-shaped cut is made on the sausage, which opens into a rosette shape after heating it in hot water.

Eggs

Hard-boiled eggs are cut into slices or finely chopped. Various figures are made from a whole egg. For small portions of salad, separately grated yolk and white are suitable; they are sprinkled on top of salads.

Thus, salads must be decorated so that the main composition of the salads is visible, but the decoration must be simple and tastefully decorated. We talked about 5 ways to decorate salads; you can also see photos in the article.

Carving

Decorative carving of fruits and vegetables - carving - has become popular in recent years. Decorations for salads can be made from different products, for example: cheese, if it is cut with a curly knife into pieces of different shapes - triangles, squares, diamonds, and so on. You can make curly cuts on the lemon peel, and then cut it into thin slices.

You can make bells from cucumbers, cut them into ribbons and make roses from them, and water lilies from cucumbers and eggs. Thick cucumbers can be turned into baskets and filled with sour berries or small radishes.

Tomatoes are useful for fly agarics and roses, and radishes for pine cones and tulips. Just keep them in cold water so that the bitterness comes out. A chrysanthemum made from radish will look simply amazing.

And the eggs! Whatever they make of them. Mushrooms, petals, flowers. They are rubbed, scored, sliced. Here's how to decorate your flower-shaped potato salad with them.

Or this salad with smoked chicken and pineapple.

Mushrooms are an excellent decoration for salads. Champignons, chanterelles, boletus, boletus, look beautiful boiled and pickled. Just look at the mushroom meadow salad, which your guests will definitely be delighted with.

Line a salad bowl with lettuce leaves or place it in a separate bunch. They not only decorate dishes, but are also very useful.

Photos of how to decorate salads

Most salads contain boiled eggs, with which you can decorate any salad in an original way, showing creativity and imagination. As the basis for such a decoration, you can take the white and yolk grated on a fine grater, which are contrasting in color, and make an original topping. To do this, the entire surface of the salad must be leveled and coated with mayonnaise on top, and then sprinkled according to the intended pattern. For example, sprinkle the middle of the salad with yolk, and the edges with white. But this is the simplest option, but you want to surprise and please your loved ones with something more original. In this case, you can lay out the white and yolk in the form of flowers, and these will most likely turn out to be daisies, with stems of dill or parsley.

And it is better to decorate the spring version of the salad with a sprig of mimosa, which is easy to do if you place a stalk of dill in the middle of the salad and sprinkle it with grated yolk like mimosa balls. On a white mayonnaise background it will look very delicate and beautiful.

Vegetable salads are decorated with vegetables, cutting out flowers, ornaments and other decorations from them. The art of carving vegetables even became a separate line of creativity called carving. Of course, like any art, carving requires certain knowledge, skills and special tools, so it is unlikely to suit every housewife, but you can decorate a salad with vegetables in an original way without carving. For example, lay the top of the salad with slices of tomatoes and cucumbers in the form of a flower, you can make small flowers from small red onion rings, and the stems will be green onions. If the salad contains canned corn, then you can put the salad on a dish in the form of two or three cobs and put corn kernels on top of the mayonnaise, and put green onion feathers on the bottom to imitate the stem.

If the salad includes cheese, then this is a very plastic material for decoration, which can be used both in grated form and in plates rolled into petals, from which you can make a magnificent flower or several calla lilies.

Small pickled cucumbers, intricately connected with the help of toothpicks, will become a real cactus, placed in the center of the salad, and if the salad contains fresh tomatoes or bell peppers, then the cactus can be made to bloom by decorating with shaped slices of cherry tomatoes or peppers.

The plot motifs in decorating salads look very original, which can be associated with the hobby of the birthday person or. It is clear that one of the New Year's salads must be laid out as a Christmas tree, decorated with toys made from all the ingredients of the salad, and for Women's Day, a salad with decoration in the form of flowers would be appropriate.

Children's parties give a huge scope for imagination, when kids need to be interested in the appearance of the dish, but it is better to make a salad for children in the form of portioned figures so as not to destroy the overall decoration. These can include shortcrust pastry baskets, egg halves filled with lettuce, spread on lettuce and decorated with crackers.

It is better to make figurines in the form of the faces of familiar animals, which delights children, or in the form of their favorite fruits.

Fairy-tale characters such as kolobok or cheburashka would be appropriate. Koloboks can be made from any thick salad and rolled in grated yolk, white or crab sticks, and eyes and mouth can be drawn with ketchup or peas stuck in.

It’s always nice when holiday dishes on the table are not only tasty, but also beautifully decorated, because in this case they become doubly appetizing and look aesthetically pleasing. A colorful, bright dish will decorate the table and will undoubtedly delight your guests.

For decoration, you can use not only greens, which has already become commonplace, you just need to show a little imagination for the presentation and, of course, select products to match the salad ingredients.

Appetizer of Korean carrots and chicken. Required ingredients:

• chicken meat - 200 grams;
• soy sauce;
• cucumber - 1 piece;
• carrots - 2 pcs;
• tomatoes (cherry) - 3 pcs;
• greenery;
• seasoning.

Peel the carrots, chop them, add salt, then place the container in the refrigerator under pressure for 1 hour. Cut the meat into cubes and fry in a frying pan with sauce. Remove the carrots and drain the juice, then mix well with the meat. Heat 15 grams of oil in a frying pan and add seasoning for the loin, stir and pour the hot mixture into the container with the prepared products. Mix all ingredients and place in the refrigerator again for 1.5 hours.

Place fresh cucumber, thinly sliced ​​lengthwise (1 slice), into a round rim-shaped mold, then fill the mold with the prepared mixture, seal and turn over onto a plate. Roll the remaining slices into a rose and decorate the finished dish, adding cherry tomato roses.

For a romantic dinner

Salad “Compliment”. Required ingredients:

• boiled shrimp - 200 grams;
• egg - 3 pcs;
• medium lemon - 1 piece;
• canned pineapple - 1 can;
• red caviar - 100 grams;
• cheese - 200 grams;
• mayonnaise.

Grate the cheese, chop the pineapples, boil the eggs. Then place the products in layers in two forms. Cover the bottom with grated egg white and season, then shrimp and season again, place pineapples on them, season and sprinkle with grated yolk. Mix the mayonnaise and prepared cheese until smooth, then fill the molds to the edge with the mixture, turn the molds over onto a plate and carefully remove. Place two heart-shaped shrimp on top of the resulting towers and fill the space in the middle with caviar. You can use leftover shrimp and parsley for garnish, or you can make a lemon rose.

For a birthday

Salad “Seahorse”. Required ingredients:

• boiled shrimp - 300 grams;
• onion - 1 piece;
• boiled squid - 300 grams;
• mayonnaise;
• egg - 2 pcs;
• canned corn - 200 grams;
• red caviar - 50 grams;
• cheese - 200 grams;
• apple - 1 piece;
• salmon (smoked) - 100 grams;
• greenery.

Chop the apple, chop the squid into thin strips, cube the shrimp, grate the eggs, marinate the chopped onion (scald with boiling water). Combine all prepared ingredients with corn and season. Then draw the outline of a seahorse on the dish and carefully spread the resulting mass over it. Sprinkle the dish with cheese, the last layer will be mayonnaise.

To give it a festive look, cover the scallop with shrimp with the addition of red eggs, and also make stripes with fins. Make roses from salmon and decorate the dish, complement the composition with lemon and herbs.

For a children's birthday

Salad “Fox coat”. Required ingredients:

• fried champignons - 400 grams;
• herring - 300 grams;
• boiled carrots - 2 pcs;
• boiled potatoes - 4 pcs;
• egg - 4 pcs;
• onion - 1 piece;
• mayonnaise.

Mix mushrooms thoroughly with chopped onions. Chop the herring, grate the potatoes and carrots, pass the eggs through a mesh (leave 1). Draw the outline of the salad and start laying it out in layers. The first will be the fish, which needs to be coated with dressing, then potatoes, mushrooms, more dressing, eggs and finally carrots.

When decorating the salad, you need to draw the muzzle and eyes, paws and tail with mayonnaise. For the eyes, cut two round pieces from the white, grate the rest and fill the tip of the tail and paws with it. Green eyes can be made with cucumber or olives. Fill the belly, muzzle and ears with grated yolk. Add circles of olives to the eyes, and make the nose and eyelashes using them too. Using the ingredients, draw a butterfly.

For New Year and Christmas

Salad “Christmas wreath”. Ingredients:

• boiled sausage - 500 grams;
• egg - 6 pcs;
• canned peas - 600 grams;
• boiled potatoes - 4 pcs;
• onions (feathers) - 100 grams;
• boiled carrots - 2 pcs;
• parsley;
• pickled cucumbers - 700 grams;
• mayonnaise.

Cut one carrot and all the potatoes into cubes, finely chop the cucumber and onion, cut the sausage into cubes, pass the eggs through a mesh. Mix the mixture with peas and season; it is advisable to leave the tops of the eggs. To paint Christmas tree decorations, you will need red cabbage juice; using a toothpick, dip the tops of the eggs into it for 5 seconds.

To lay out the salad, place a jar in the center of the plate and place the salad around it, then carefully remove the jar and draw a mayonnaise mesh on the salad, attach parsley to it in a circle. You will get a wreath, which needs to be decorated with made toys and bows made from carrots.

For Valentine's Day

Salad “Kiss of a Lover”. Ingredients:

• cheese - 200 grams;
• boiled beets - 2 pcs;
• carrots - 3 pcs;
• peeled garlic - 3 cloves;
• steamed raisins - 100 grams;
• walnuts - 100 grams;
• mayonnaise.

Mix carrots, grated well, with raisins, season, then place the lip-shaped mass on the chosen dish. Grate cheese with garlic and season, place on top. Grate the beets and nuts, season and spread, giving the mixture the shape of lips. Decorate the salad with roses from beet-colored daikon and leaves from cucumber sticks.

Festive fur coat

Ingredients:

• herring - 500 grams;
• boiled carrots and potatoes - 5 pcs each;
• onion - 1 piece;
• boiled beets - 2 pcs;
• mayonnaise.

Grate the potatoes and place ⅔ of the mixture on the chosen dish, after it comes the herring, which is cut into cubes, marinate the chopped onion (scald with boiling water) and place on top of the fish, then grease everything with dressing. Grated carrots will be the fourth layer, then potatoes again, brush with dressing. Grate the beets and, leveling the salad, lay it out, then coat the dish with dressing.

To decorate, draw a grid of mayonnaise, decorate with buttons and carrot roses, and add parsley to the decoration.

On March 8

Salad “Emerald”. Ingredients:

• chicken (fillet) - 500 grams;
• cheese - 300 grams;
• cucumber - 2 pcs;
• nuts (walnuts) - 50 grams;
• kiwi - 3-5 pcs;
• mayonnaise.

Chop the meat into cubes and fry in a frying pan, spread the mixture onto the prepared dish, giving it the shape of a figure eight, then brush with dressing. Chop the cucumber into strips and place on top of the meat, then grated cheese, brush with dressing. Grind the nuts to a powder and sprinkle on the salad, cut the peeled kiwi into slices and place on top.

To decorate the dish, you can use daikon roses, herbs and canned corn.

Original salad

Starfish salad. Ingredients:

• round rice - 200 grams;
• olives;
• cucumber (fresh) - 1 piece;
• egg - 3 pcs;
• lettuce leaves;
• salmon (smoked) - 400 grams;
• shrimp - 350 grams;
• mayonnaise;
• Philadelphia cheese - 175 grams.

Cook the rice in the proportion of 350 milliliters of liquid per 200 grams of rice, reduce the heat after boiling and cook until the water is completely absorbed. Mix the cheese and dressing in equal proportions and blend using a blender. Cut the cucumbers into strips, then place lettuce leaves on the chosen dish and draw a star-shaped outline. Place the rice, then brush it with the prepared dressing and place chopped boiled shrimp on top, which we cover again with the dressing. The next layer is cucumber, on which put coarsely grated eggs and another layer of dressing.

For decoration we use salmon strips, which need to be laid out in the shape of a star, and olive rings.

For the holiday table

Tiffany salad. Ingredients:

• grapes - 300 grams;
• cucumber (fresh);
• cheese - 200 grams;
• egg - 3 pcs;
• chicken breast (smoked) - 1 piece;
• nuts (walnuts) - 100 grams;
• mayonnaise.

Chop the breast into cubes, grate the cheese and nuts, halve the grapes and remove the seeds or take the seedless variety straight away. The first layer on ⅔ of the dish is to spread the meat and attach a grape sprig to it, then a layer of grated eggs and dressing, then sprinkle everything generously with nuts, and sprinkle cheese on top. After lubricating the mixture with the dressing, place the grape slices close together.

Cut leaves from the cucumber and attach them to a grape branch to decorate the dish.

For any occasion

Salad “Berezka”. Ingredients:

• chicken meat (fillet) - 300 grams;
• champignons - 300 grams;
• egg - 5 pcs;
• pickled cucumbers - 6 pcs;
• onions (feathers) - 50 grams;
• mayonnaise.

Fry mushrooms with onions, boil chicken and eggs, chop cucumbers. Place the mixture in an oval shape on a dish, then chop the breast into cubes and brush everything with dressing. After this, lay out a layer of grated protein, and then cucumbers and again dressing. Sprinkle with finely grated yolk as the final layer.

To decorate the salad, you need to draw a birch tree with the dressing, make strips from pieces of olives, and make leaves from onion feathers.

The decoration of the room, the table setting, the holiday menu, it would seem that everything is thought out to the smallest detail, but the presentation of the dishes itself is perplexing. How can we create a beautiful New Year's salad decoration for the New Year of the Monkey with our own hands, so that even a simple Olivier salad will become a real photo hero on the Internet? The color palette, treats and decor should fully meet the tastes of the new hostess of the year, so we focus on bright colors and tropical themes.

When preparing for the New Year's celebrations, we must remember that the coming year will pass under the sign of the fire monkey. Based on this talisman, we will seek creative potential for our culinary story.

Color palette for decorating New Year's salads

Warm shades with a predominance of red, yellow and orange are the very nuance that should be taken into account in the color design of the table. Here we are talking not only about serving and stylistic details on the New Year's table, but also about New Year's salad decoration.

Therefore, we immediately take note for decorating those products that suit us in color:

• Bright vegetables: carrots, tomatoes, bell peppers, radishes, red beans, corn;
• Fruits: pomegranates, apples, oranges and tangerines, grapes, watermelon, peaches;
• Red berries;
• Fish products: red fish, caviar.

Thematic attributes of the New Year

Also, do not forget that monkeys are tropical animals, and they will only like all sorts of thematic attributes.

For example, how do you like the idea of ​​decorating a salad for the New Year in the shape of a banana or palm tree?

What if you try to connect the New Year's mood and the hidden talents of the artist and create a monkey portrait in a Santa Claus hat?

An oasis with palm trees, olives and herbs will also look beautiful on the table. Agree, decorating salads is an interesting business, the main thing is to find a source of inspiration. And we are glad to become this very source for you.

How to decorate salads for the New Year

Many housewives, when it comes to serving salads, remain faithful to the principle of a “common plate”, that is, they strive to present a cold dish in an original way, not in portioned plates, but on a common platter.

For a family celebration, this is acceptable and even interesting, because there are a lot of creative ideas on how to beautifully decorate New Year's salads, even if it is a traditional Olivier salad. We have selected the most interesting options for decorating snacks with photos.

Monkey face

To prepare the salad, we will need the products included in the appetizer. If we are decorating an Olivier salad or, for example, a herring under a fur coat, then we can take boiled carrots (1-2 pcs.), 3-5 boiled egg yolks and 2 tbsp. pitted black olives.

1. We form the salad itself on a platter using a pastry spatula in the shape of a monkey’s head with ears and muzzle.
2. Then, with a finely grated carrot, we lay out the top of the head and sideburns, leaving the arches under the eyes, and fill the rest of the surface of the face and ears with crumbled yolk.
3. Now we make the eyes and nose from halves of olives, and lay out the outline of the ears, muzzle and smile with olives cut into thin strips. This cute fiery monkey will amuse guests at the table.

And to follow up on this idea, we offer you salad recipes for the base of a monkey’s face and other options for decorating the New Year’s “Monkey” salad.

Palm

This can be absolutely any salad, laid out in a circle, the top layer of which must be sprinkled with cheese and the edges decorated with curly parsley.

To construct palm trees, we will need to plant pitted olives on bamboo skewers, and form a crown from parsley. We install “trees” in the center of the oasis and enjoy the beauty of the tropical landscape.

Another option for creating a palm tree would be a simple cucumber and bell pepper. The result is in the photo below.

Cactus

Another original serving option will require several leaves of red lettuce and 5 gherkins, 3 carrot “flowers” ​​and toothpicks for decoration.

We line the edges of the dish with lettuce leaves, place the appetizer itself on top of them, and in the center we place a “cactus” of interconnected cucumbers decorated with “flowers.”

Candle

Simple Christmas sketches will also help to emphasize the winter atmosphere of the New Year holiday.

For example, a salad decorated in the form of a Christmas wreath and candle looks very beautiful and truly fabulous on the table.

To do this, the salad should be laid out in the form of a ring, where the top layer should be generously decorated with sprigs of dill or rosemary, a scattering of corn and pomegranate grains, and the candles should be formed from rolled-up slices of cheese for toast, and the lights should be made from a red layer of crab sticks or pieces of red bell pepper .

And this is just one of a great many different options.

Salads on a common platter can be depicted in the form of a bullfinch, penguin, Santa Claus, Kremlin clock, snowman and other winter attributes.

Fruit ideas

But don’t forget that the guest of honor at our feast is still a monkey, so fruit motifs in the design of snacks will be very helpful:

• Orange slice salad
• A cold appetizer according to any recipe, laid out in the shape of a ripe banana and sprinkled with egg yolk on top;
• A pineapple. We place the appetizer on a dish in an oval, decorate it with walnut kernels or pickled champignons, and stick leeks at the base.

Continuing the theme of the tropics for the general joy of the fire monkeys, it would not be amiss to study interesting photo ideas for decorating salads for the New Year in original portioned “cream bowls”.

Vegetable and fruit bowls

Regardless of what exclusive recipes the hostess of the celebration decides to use, the New Year’s dish will look very unique and beautiful in a boat made from a banana peel, an empty half of an orange or an apple, in a “salad bowl” made from pineapple, watermelon or in a melon basket.

And avocado or coconut shells are simply made for a New Year's party in the style of a “monkey carnival”. Vegetables can also be used as portioned salad plates:

• tomatoes,
• cucumber boats,
• eggplant bowls
• bell pepper slices,
• pieces of celery stalk.

Buffet table

For the fashionable trend of the current decade - a buffet, it is most appropriate to serve salads in the form of buffet appetizers.

To do this, you can use tartlets, waffle rolls and cups, cheese baskets or original baskets made of bread (base), straws (support) and green onions (weave) as edible containers.

Dishes with such snacks are guaranteed to cause a storm of positive emotions among your guests. In addition, it is convenient, practical and looks very impressive on the table.

Serving New Year's salad on pita bread

Mexican cuisine is probably to the liking of monkeys, because for many primates this tropical region is their homeland.

Why don’t we please the mascot of the year with salads in a tortilla - a wheat flatbread, and serve snacks like real Mexican burritos, tacos, enchiladas or chimichangas.

Decorating and serving New Year's salad in glasses, bowls, bowls

Wine glasses and martini glasses, glasses and cognac glasses filled with colored salads will look no less original and bright on New Year's tables.

The dishes will definitely create a real fireworks of colors on the table. But we know that fire monkeys are simply crazy about bold color schemes.

Add some tropical decor, and voila, Africa table setting is ready!

This is how, using our imagination, we were able to create with our own hands an incredibly beautiful, truly unique New Year’s salad decoration for the new one.

Decoration and decoration of salads.

New Year's salad decoration

Father Frost

New Year's salad design in the form of Santa Claus for a winter salad or Olivier salad is also suitable for decorating a herring under a fur coat.

Prepare the salad and place it in an even layer on a plate.

Grate the boiled carrots on a medium grater and cover the salad with a thin layer except for the place for Santa Claus's face.

Cover your face with grated egg white. Cut the olive in half and spread it on your face.

Make a nose and mouth from half a cherry tomato. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater and place it around the face, decorate the coat and make a pom-pom for the hat.

Christmas trees

Winter salad sprinkled with egg whites and decorated with cucumber trees.

Making a salad with chicken breast

Place the salad in a heap on a flat plate covered with Chinese cabbage leaves. Cut the chicken breast into slices and place on the salad in a circle.

Egg salad decoration

How to decorate a salad with eggs? This is easy and quick to do. Due to their shape and properties, eggs can be cut into flower petals, and the yolk can be used as the center of the flower.

It is advisable that the eggs be combined to taste with the ingredients included in the salad. This is an ideal decoration for salads with eggs, such as Olivier salad or winter salad.

Chamomile

Place the salad in a heap on a plate. Decorate the salad with egg petals along the edge of the plate. Decorate the middle of the chamomile with grated yolk. Finish the chamomile with green parsley leaves.

Simple decoration of vegetable salad with eggs

Place the salad on a plate. Egg slices are placed around the edge of the salad plate and on top.

Winter salad decoration

Making a salad in a slide

Place the salad in a heap in a salad bowl. Cut the egg into slices, which are placed on the salad. Finish the salad with strips of sausage and green peas.

Making a winter salad or Olivier as an appetizer

Use a special knife to cut cucumber strips.

Twist a ring from a cucumber strip.

Place lettuce leaves on the bottom of each ring.

Arrange winter salad or Olivier and sprinkle grated yolk on top.

Garnishing salad with mushrooms

Mushroom

Cut the champignons lengthwise and fry in vegetable oil until fully cooked. We place the cooled mushrooms on the cap of our mushroom from the salad.

Place strips of fresh cucumber at the bottom of the mushroom.

"Cone"

You can beautifully and simply arrange mushrooms and champignons in the form of a cone. Champignons can be taken fresh and fried, or marinated. Each subsequent layer of champignons covers the previous one in a checkerboard pattern. Finish the salad with a sprig of dill.

Salad design Herring under a fur coat

Decorate the top of the salad with grated potatoes, strips of egg white, and a circle of egg for the eye of the fish.

Salad decoration “Monomakh's Hat”

Decorating vegetable salad with olives, tomatoes and cucumbers “Berry”

Decoration for a vegetable salad from simple ingredients can be made easily and simply from olives and cherry tomatoes, and the delicious salad will look like a delicious berry.

Salad ingredients

• 1 fresh cucumber
• 200 g green peas
• 1/3 small head of fresh cabbage
• 5-9 pitted olives
• 2-3 eggs
• mayonnaise or vegetable oil

Ingredients for decorating the salad "Berry"

• 5-6 olives
• 12-15 cherry tomatoes
• some fresh cucumber

To prepare the salad itself, cut the olives into four parts, chop the cabbage, and chop the eggs into small pieces. Add green peas and mix everything. Season the salad with mayonnaise. You can also season the salad with vegetable oil. And then eggs can be excluded from the salad. Both salad options are delicious.

Place the salad in a salad bowl. To decorate the salad, cut the tomatoes and olives in half, cut the cucumber into small slices. Spread the berries with halves of cherry tomatoes, alternating them with halves of olives. Place cucumber slices in a row on top of the berries.

Decoration for vegetable salads “Basket”

How to decorate a vegetable salad with your own hands. We suggest making a beautiful vegetable salad “Basket with Berries”.

Actually, the salad itself is easy and quick to prepare from fresh vegetables (cabbage and cucumber) with the addition of grated cheese. You can decorate this salad even faster and more effectively with cherry tomatoes and pitted olives.

Ingredients

• 1/2 small head of fresh cabbage
• 100 g hard cheese
• 1 cucumber

To decorate the salad

• Cherry tomatoes
• 1 small can of pitted olives

Shred the cabbage. Cut fresh cucumber into narrow strips. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Mix cheese, cabbage and cucumber, season with vegetable oil.

Place the salad in a salad bowl and use a spoon to level the surface, compacting the sides slightly.

We make a basket of olives. To do this, cut the pitted olives in half.

Place the olive halves on half the surface of the salad. We also lay out the handle of the basket of olives as in the photo.

Cut cherry tomatoes in half. Place the tomato halves in the basket. A beautiful basket of berries is ready.

Simple decoration of cucumber salad

Place a mound of salad in a salad bowl. Cut the cucumbers into halves and arrange them around the edges of the salad, making a flower in the center of the salad. Finish the salad with sweet corn.

Salad decoration for March 8

To place the salad you will need a flat plate and two narrow glasses. Place the salad on a plate around the glasses, compacting and smoothing it along the edges of the salad with a spoon. That is, we form the number 8. Carefully remove the glasses. Using a damp cloth, we remove the excess lettuce protruding beyond the outline of our figure eight. Sprinkle the eight with grated egg or cheese. Arrange parsley leaves.

Decoration for salad Olivier “Butterfly”

Mix all the ingredients for the salad and season with mayonnaise. Place the salad on a flat plate and at the same time form a round shape, lightly compacting it with a spoon. The salad turns out viscous and easily retains its shape.

Cut the egg into slices lengthwise. Place four egg slices on the surface of the salad - these are butterfly wings. Place sweet corn around the edge of the egg rounds.

Grate the boiled carrots on a coarse grater. Place carrot strips on the wings, and you can also use carrot strips to decorate the sides of the salad. Place raisins in place of the body and antennae of the butterfly.

Design and decoration of salads for children

Lamb

The salad is laid out on a flat plate in the form of a body with a head and tail. Sprinkle the salad with grated egg. Use prunes to decorate the head, ears, and paws. Make eyes and a mouth from egg whites and prunes.

Today it is difficult to imagine any holiday table without salads. Our Slavic people love salads: different, tasty, with vodka, traditional and original! And beautiful salads are such a pleasant addition to any salad, which every housewife tries to implement in her kitchen.

Decorating salads is like a religion and philosophy - each housewife has her own, and they are united by one common hobby - decorating dishes. You can philosophize on the topic of how to decorate salads for a long time. And there are people who generally don’t like decorating salads in our usual sense. In any case, beautiful salads are an atmosphere of celebration, celebration, this is an opportunity to make ours brighter and richer.

Dear guests of the site, I bring to your attention an original selection with examples of decorating salads, which I hope you will not only like, but will also appear on your holiday table.

Sunflower salad

You can see the Sunflower salad recipe and design options

Salad with chicken and champignons “Mushroom”

See how to prepare and decorate the “Mushroom” salad

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast - 300-400 grams,
• champignons – 300 grams,
• onions - 1-2 heads,
• eggs - 2-3 pcs.,
• tomatoes - 2-3 pcs.,
• fresh cucumbers – 2-3 pcs.,
• green onion – 1 bunch,
• hard cheese – 100-150 grams,
• olives.

Preparation:

Boil the chicken breast - chop finely.

Cut the mushrooms and onions into cubes, fry in vegetable oil, adding butter.

Boil eggs, cut into cubes.

Lay out in layers: chicken breast - sour cream - mushrooms, fried with onions - sour cream - boiled eggs - sour cream.

Top decoration: finely chopped tomatoes, cucumbers – into strips + dill, cheese – grated, olives.

Pink salmon salad “Chamomile”

How to prepare and decorate pink salmon salad “Chamomile”

“Hedgehog” salad with Korean carrots

Ingredients:

• half a chicken fillet – about 300 grams
• marinated champignons whole from a jar
• 2 medium onions
• 3 chicken eggs
• medium cucumber
• about 200 grams of hard cheese
• 1 pack of mayonnaise
• handful of walnuts
• a glass of Korean carrots
• 3 medium pitted olives
• bunch of lettuce leaves
• Salt and a little pepper

Preparation:

1. Boil chicken fillet in salted water, cool and cut into not very large cubes.

2. Boil the eggs and grate them coarsely.

3. Peel the onions and chop finely.

4. Wash the cucumber and cut into small strips. You can, of course, grate it, but then too much juice will come out and the mushy cucumber will not work in this salad.

5. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.

6. Grind the walnuts very well; you can put them in a blender and pepper them.

7. Leave a few mushrooms for decoration, and finely chop the remaining champignons and fry in butter.

8. Even this amount of food will make a rather large hedgehog, so take a larger plate, lay lettuce leaves on the bottom and form the silhouette of a hedgehog by laying out the layers in turn: chicken - a layer of mayonnaise - onions - more mayonnaise - mushrooms - a layer of mayonnaise - eggs - again mayonnaise - cucumber - grated walnuts - cheese - mayonnaise.

9. Cover the body of the hedgehog with Korean carrots, leaving the face cheesey. Make the eyes and nose from olives, spread the greens around and plant mushrooms on top of the “needles.”

I recommend this dish for a holiday. It seems to me that the Hedgehog salad is a purely male recipe, but if you remove the pepper, it will also suit children. A very charming animal for the center of the holiday table. And it’s better to make mayonnaise yourself, for your own health!

Salad with pomegranate “Ladybug”

How to prepare and decorate Ladybug salad with pomegranate

Salad "Tulips"

Preparation:

1. Make a tulip, cut the petals at the top of the tomato, it is better if the tomatoes are firmer.

2. We remove what we cut. Use a knife carefully.

3. Then take out the core with a spoon, take out up to half of the tomato so that the taste of the tomato is also present, but depending on who you like, if you like more filling, take out more of the core.

4. For the filling, boil cheese, two eggs, garlic, walnuts and mayonnaise.

Salad "Callies"

How to prepare and decorate Calla lilies salad, see

Salad "Birch Grove"

Ingredients:

• 300 gr. boiled chicken fillet,
• 300 gr. fried champignons,
• Fry 3 onions
• 200 gr. pitted prunes,
• 5 eggs (white, yolk separately)
• 2 small fresh cucumbers,
• mayonnaise, greens.

Preparation:

1st layer—chicken—finely chopped fillet,

2nd layer—finely chopped prunes,

3rd layer—champignons with onions,

4th layer of squirrel,

5th layer cucumbers into small cubes.

Finely grate the yolks on top, and finely grate the whites on the sides.

We decorate for every taste. Ready.

Salad "White Royal"

Ingredients:

• Chicken meat 500 gr.
• Cucumber 2 pieces (fresh)
• Eggs 3-4 pieces
• Mushrooms 300 gr. (any to taste)
• Hard cheese 100 gr.
• Mayonnaise

Preparation:

The entire process of preparing a salad consists of layers that are laid out in a certain sequence. Before we start laying out the layers of salad, we will need to prepare all the necessary ingredients for this in this way:

- chicken meat should be boiled;

- fry mushrooms in a frying pan;

- grate the cucumbers using a grater, using a large grater;

- Boil the eggs and grate them on a coarse grater.

We lay out the layers in a certain sequence:

1 layer – boiled chicken;

2nd layer – mayonnaise;

3rd layer – fried mushrooms;

4th layer – mayonnaise;

5 layer – fresh cucumbers;

6th layer – mayonnaise;

7th layer – boiled eggs;

8th layer – mayonnaise;

9th layer – cheese.

Decorate in the shape of a piano using hard cheese and black olives. You can also form a beautiful rose from lightly salted salmon, which will perfectly transform the entire salad landscape.

Ladybug salad with caviar

See how to prepare Ladybug salad with caviar